{"product_id":"shirley-jackson-essays-on-the-literary-legacy-9780786423125","title":"Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eShirley Jackson was one of America's most prominent female writers of the 1950s. Between 1948 and 1965 she published six novels, one best-selling story collection, two popular volumes of her family chronicles and many stories, which ranged from fairly conventional tales for the women's magazine market to the ambiguous, allusive, delicately sinister and more obviously literary stories that were closest to Jackson's heart and destined to end up in the more highbrow end of the market. Most critical discussions of Jackson tend to focus on \"The Lottery\" and \u003cem\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House.\u003c\/em\u003e An author of such accomplishment--and one so fully engaged with the pressures and preoccupations of postwar America--merits fuller discussion. To that end, this collection of essays widens the scope of Jackson scholarship with new writing on such works as \u003cem\u003eThe Road through the Wall\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWe Have Always Lived in the Castle\u003c\/em\u003e, and topics ranging from Jackson's domestic fiction to ethics, cosmology, and eschatology. The book also makes newly available some of the most significant Jackson scholarship published in the last two decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bernice M. Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.44w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780786423125","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710582132873,"sku":"9780786423125","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_783237fc-e1ee-48b8-9bd2-ea9283bb11f3.jpg?v=1719539006","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/shirley-jackson-essays-on-the-literary-legacy-9780786423125","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}